Broader expenditure: Starmer speaks in his office at 10 Downing Street in London. Britain has highlighted how broader expenditure on national security means it is closer to the fresh target than the numbers for raw military spending would suggest. — Reuters
LONDON: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has vowed to spend 5% of British economic output on security by 2035, embracing an ambitious North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) target sought by US President Donald Trump without providing a path on how to get there.
After weeks of refusing to be drawn on the matter, the premier was due to make the new commitment yesterday at the Nato summit in the Hague, the Netherlands, according to a statement from Downing Street.
